Actual New Yorker here. NYC is a very pricey place to live. That’s the issue. Not the mayor. Mamdani seeks to address affordability which a lot of cops want. He made some ill informed blanket statement in the past about cops, but thankfully is smart enough to grow and show he can change. His initiative to relieve cops of many mental health calls is appreciated by cops. He also showed up at that slain cops memorial service (the one shot by the football player with CTE). You don’t think hundreds of NYPD weren’t there and moved by it? You underestimate them. Btw the force is extremely diverse now. A lot of people on this chain seem to be focused on old fashioned tropes |
Right the sophisticated intelligence that missed October 7 despite multiple female IDF watchers warning of it |
LOL…Dems are anti-bad cop. Too bad they aren’t anti-bad criminal. |
We missed 9/11 despite chatter and had commercial airplanes kill thousands of Americans. Counterterrorism has to bat 1.000 every day or people die. Israel is better at it than we are. We’re surrounded by oceans and non-threatening countries. Israel is in the sandbox. |
Supposedly 5,000 are quitting because Mamdani got elected. I'd say that anyone quitting their job on the force just because they thought someone said something mean is a snowflake who doesn't have the temperament to be a police officer in the first place. Hopefully that includes some of the corrupt ones, because I do think there's some overlap. As for NYPD demographics, it largely mirrors NYC demographics within about 5-10% in each demographic area, with one bigger exception being more latinos and less whites on the force now than 20 years ago. |
Statements, plural, repeatedly, both written and spoken word examples. That you think HE changed is naive. His front facing facade changed to make him electable. The real Mamdani is the old Mamdani. Like I said, no one here is going to extend grace to Republicans because they hate them. They think they’re corrupt, racist, and homophobic. Where have I heard that before? |
Where did that number come from? That’s aggressive. |
Great cops should have no problem being held to high standards. |
DP. You’re being deliberately disingenuous. How many people would stay at a job where their boss suggested they were “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety”? Especially when that job is dangerous, has terrible hours, pays poorly, and when you can get a similar job elsewhere? Mamdani’s past statements about police were incredibly ill-advised. Time will tell whether and to what extent they have real world impact. |
It’s not about standards, it’s about support. |
For starters, I think most people are smarter than to reach the illogical conclusions you suggest. If they aren't, maybe they need a new line of work? |
Are you representing the NYPD, because I don't think they whine the way you do. |
No, they just leave for Nassau, Westchester and Suffolk counties where they can make more money and work for a boss that respects them. |
Of course they are, you are just a ridiculously ill-informed. |
Chump said the entire federal workforce was sh!t and that many of them weren't needed. He told them to leave. He even said they were so worthless he would pay them to leave. Then he started firing them. Interesting how so many good hardworking feds are complaining and suing to stay hired. Mamdani is nowhere near this level. Much of what he's saying resonates with the public because they live in poor neighborhoods and have eyes and ears on the cops. Maybe he could have been a little more measured but he's not a politician and white MAGA polarize everything with their ADHD sound bites. New Yorkers know what he's talking about and they're thick skinned to not get triggered. Good cops won't leave because of standards but bad cops will. I feel bad (not really, though) for small PD that don't have enough PO to hide these bad apples. |